Why is my droplet stuck at "creating"? it has been hours now :(

We’re sorry you encountered this problem. I’ve reviewed things and can provide a bit of clarification on what happened.

• It appears that during the time you encountered this problem we had an active issue that required us to disable the processing of droplet events. This was reported on our status page at the time to alert users to delayed creates and other events. If you encounter a problem in the control panel it’s recommended to check if there is an active reported issue occurring. All status notifications can be found here and are also tweeted out on Twitter by the @DOStatus account.

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if you want to destroy the droplet this will help its very simple to destroy the stuck droplet, few minutes ago i encountered same problem , after thinking for a few seconds a got the idea to fix this. To destroy the droplet which is stuck in creation mode, click the droplet and move to destroy tab and right click on destroy button and select inspect Elements and remove/delete the “disabled” text from the destroy button class which should be highlighted.

if you did not understand tell me i can create a video for that.

Dude great idea! For those who dont get it use the firefox inspector to find the html for the destroy button and remove the disabled setting associated with the destroy button. Then you can actually click it and force the destroy command to be sent. By the way I always seem to have trouble with New York data centers.